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By Salisu K Ismail
A civil society and citizen’s groups coalition popularly known as Citizens Stability Forum (CSF) has called on the security agencies in Nigeria to act on intelligence provided by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The call was contained in a statement signed by the lead convener of the platform Comrade Mukhtar Lawal and made it available to news men.
"The current insecurity happenings in Nigeria have exposed the lack of collaboration and synergy between security agencies in the country, adding that the most disturbing aspect been the continuous disregard to security intelligence provided by the Department of State Services (DSS) to the Military, Police and Paramilitary security agencies.
"As such when there is inefficiency in collaboration or a lack of synergy with other security agencies the result will be that criminals and terrorist will be having a field day and will be pulling up acts of terrorism that will otherwise be impossible for them" the statement said.
According to the statement, one needs to understand the role that each agency needs to play in this security co-operation as the roles are clearly defined by Nigeria’s constitution.
"Inadequate cooperation and synergy among relevant authorities led to the loss of lives while many hospitalised and over sixty civilians kidnapped by terrorist at Kaduna-Abuja train attack as well as terrorist attack on Kuje Prison on the 5th of July 2022 where they succeeded in releasing their fellow colleagues" it said.
The forum also commended the excellent leadership from the DSS hierarchy led by Director-General of the DSS, Mr. Yusuf Bichi adding that, DG has instilled commitment, diligence, and pro-activeness in tackling insecurity across the county.
The statement then, begged security agencies to secure this country by working collectively as it is the responsibility of the Presidency to ensure the safety of every citizens.
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